The Night Lights of North Korea. Prosperity Shining and Public Policy Governance

Alfio Cerami

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This article looks into the night lights of North Korea and their relationship to prosperity shining. The first introductory section discusses the political economy of North Korea. It highlights its strengths and shortcomings. The second section introduces to new methods of geo-spatial micro and macro econometric analysis. The following night lights analysis is based on near real-time big data. It includes high-resolution remote-sensing and satellite imagery from the NASA (Earth Obervatory) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor on the Suomi NPP satellite. The third and fourth section addresses important issues related to North Korea's prices, co-optation and mobilization of anger. The final section deal with problems in public policy administration.

Keywords: North Korea; Varieties of Capitalism; Night Lights; Satellite Imagery; Political Economy; public policy administration; buyngjing line. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 F1 F5 O11 O12 P2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06-11, Revised 2018-06-13
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